atafan
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- Aug 9, 2003
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I want to apologize for some of the negative things that have been said towards SWA pilots by a few of my fellow ATA pilots.
We have had a pretty good deal at ATA, job satisfaction has always been very high and then George Mikelsons screwed the airline up and we lost our good deal. It's tough not knowing what's going to happen next when you see one thing and Gary Kelly and Denisons says another, it's easy not to trust management after what we have been through.
I and most ATA pilots don't blame SWA for any of our problems and are thankful to have at least bought some time. I am also thankful to SWA pilots for trusting their management and respecting ATA enough not to try to stop this codeshare experiment by citing scope.
I'm not naive, I know that this whole deal could go away but if it's possible it will happen working with an honorable company like SWA. No, I'm not trying to kiss my way into a SWA job, my flying career will end with this ATA gig but I will see this to the end and I am hopeful and positive.
My income has been cut more than half over the last couple of years but I'm still having a good time and still enjoy working with my ATA brothers and sisters.
P.S. the DC-9 job was at a small defunct company called JetTrain.
We have had a pretty good deal at ATA, job satisfaction has always been very high and then George Mikelsons screwed the airline up and we lost our good deal. It's tough not knowing what's going to happen next when you see one thing and Gary Kelly and Denisons says another, it's easy not to trust management after what we have been through.
I and most ATA pilots don't blame SWA for any of our problems and are thankful to have at least bought some time. I am also thankful to SWA pilots for trusting their management and respecting ATA enough not to try to stop this codeshare experiment by citing scope.
I'm not naive, I know that this whole deal could go away but if it's possible it will happen working with an honorable company like SWA. No, I'm not trying to kiss my way into a SWA job, my flying career will end with this ATA gig but I will see this to the end and I am hopeful and positive.
My income has been cut more than half over the last couple of years but I'm still having a good time and still enjoy working with my ATA brothers and sisters.
P.S. the DC-9 job was at a small defunct company called JetTrain.